Ellen
Allien
Ellen Allien, born Ellen Fraatz (born 1969), is a German electronic
musician, music producer and founder of BPitch Control music
label. She lives in Berlin, Germany. She sings in both German
and English. She has said that one of the main inspirations for
her music is the culture of reunified Berlin;[1] her album Stadtkind
was dedicated to the city. Her music is best described as a blend
of IDM and electro music, which is dance-floor oriented, yet
at the same time has noticeable experimental elements.
Ellen was born in Berlin in 1969. Her father played guitar and piano. During
1989, she lived in London where she first came into contact with
electronic music. When she later returned to Berlin, electronic
music had become increasingly popular in Germany. In 1992, she
became resident DJ in the Bunker, Tresor and in E-Werk. She started
her own show on the Berlin radio station Kiss-FM and created her
own record label, calling them both "Braincandy". Due to discrepancies with disk sales, she gave Braincandy up in 1997 and instead,
organized parties with the name, "B Pitch". Allien created the label BPitch Control in 1999. The label's releases from
Sascha Funke and Tok Tok were particularly successful. Allien released
her first album, Stadtkind ("city child"), in 2001, and Berlinette in 2003, After releasing Thrills, Allien created a
BPitch sub-label for minimal tech and minimal house, called "Memo Musik", in 2005. Orchestra of Bubbles, in collaboration with Apparat, featurings songs
like "Way Out" and "Jet", was released in 2006.
During the same year, Ellen Allien launched her
own fashion line, which can be seen as "an extension of her philosophy of life“. Ellen Allien Fashion[2] combines a smart
perspective onto fashion, music, art, and traveling to an overarching
existence, which is meant to be shared. Exploring the globe, street
life, Ellen Allien develops her own intuition for materials, forms
and designs. In her most recent collection, Night Flowers (Ellen
Allien Fashion spring/summer 2010), she created a complete look
made of a mixture of black floral lace, white and black floral
stitched cotton and summer wool. Featuring hazy prints of dancing
people on loose cut t-shirts, each detail transports the feeling
of Night Flowers -- "we are the night flowers, and in those special moments, when the music and the
crowd become one, we magically blossom at the turn of dusk…."[3]
After the minimalistic Sool in 2008, she released
her fifth solo album Dust (BPC217) in May 2010.
Allien made a brief appearance in the 2009 electronic
music documentary, Speaking In Code.[4]
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
2001 - Stadtkind (BPC021)
2003 - Berlinette (BPC065)
2004 - Remix Collection (BPC080)
2005 - Thrills (BPC106)
2006 - Orchestra of Bubbles (BPC125)
2008 - Sool (BPC175)
2010 - Dust (BPC217)
[edit] EPs / singles
1995 - "Ellen Allien EP" (XAMP03)
1995 - "Yellow Sky Vol. II" (MFS7074-0)
1997 - "Be Wild" (BRAINCANDY002)
1997 - "Rockt Krieger" (BRAINCANDY003)
2000 - "Last Kiss '99" (BPC008)
2000 - "Dataromance" (BPC013)
2001 - "Dataromance" (Remixes) (BPC029)
2001 - "Stadtkind" (Remixes) (BPC030)
2002 - "Erdbeermund" (BPC041)
2003 - "Trash Scapes" (Remixes)
(BPC066)
2003 - "Alles Sehen" (Remixes) (BPC073)
2004 - "Astral" (BPC085)
2005 - "Magma" (BPC105)
2005 - "Your Body Is My Body" (BPC113)
2006 - "Just A Man/Just A Woman" (with
Audion) (SPC36)
2006 - "Down" (Remixes) (BPC116)
2006 - "Turbo Dreams" (BPC124)
2006 - "Way Out" (Remixes) (BPC129)
2006 - "Jet" (Remixes) (BPC135)
2007 - "Go" (BPC160)
2008 - "Sprung / Its" (BPC176)
2008 - "Out Remixes" (BPC178)
2008 - "Elphine Remixes" (BPC181)
2008 - "Ondu / Caress" (BPC186)
2009 - "Lover" (BPC199)
2010 - "Pump" (BPC209)
2010 - "Flashy Flashy" (BPC216)
2011 - "Dust Remixes Ep " (BPC232)
[edit] Mix CDs
2001 - Flieg mit Ellen Allien ("Fly
with Ellen Allien")
2002 - Weiss.Mix ("White mix")
2004 - My Parade
2007 - Fabric 34: Ellen Allien
2007 - Time Out Presents - The Other Side: Berlin
2007 - Bpitch Control Camping Compilation 03
2008 - Boogybytes, vol. 04
2010 - Watergate 05
[edit] Remixes
1996 - Gut-Humpe - "Butterpump
(Ellen Allien rmx)"
1996 - Gut-Humpe - "Butter (Ellen Allien dub)"
2001 - Malaria! - "Eifersucht (Ellen Allien
rmx)"
2001 - Miss Kittin & Goldenboy - "Rippin
Kittin (Ellen Allien rmx)"
2001 - PeterLicht - "Die Transsylvanische
Verwandte Ist Da (Ellen Allien Fun Maniac mix)"
2002 - Covenant - "Bullet (Ellen Allien rmx)"
2003 - Apparat - "Koax (Ellen Allien rmx)"
2003 - Barbara Morgenstern - "Aus
Heiterem Himmel (Ellen Allien rmx)"
2003 - OMR - "The Way We Have Chosen (Ellen Allien
rmx)"
2003 - Sascha Funke - "Forms And Shapes
(Ellen Allien rmx)"
2003 - Vicknoise - "Chromosoma 23 (Ellen Allien
rmx)"
2004 - Gold Chains - "Let's Get It On (Ellen
Allien rmx)"
2004 - Gudrun Gut - "Butterfly (Ellen Allien
Butter dub mix)"
2004 - Miss Yetti - "Marguerite (Ellen Allien
rmx)"
2004 - Neulander - "Sex, God + Money (Ellen
Allien rmx)"
2005 - George Thompson - "Laid Back
Snack Attack (Ellen Allien Via mix)"
2006 - Audion - "Just A Man (Ellen Allien rmx)"
2007 - Beck - "Cellphone's Dead (Ellen Allien rmx)"
2007 - Louderbach - "Season 6 (Ellen Allien
Away rmx)"
2007 - Safety Scissors - "Where Is Germany
And How Do I Get There (Ellen Allien Germany rmx)"
2009 - Uffie - "Pop The Glock (Ellen Allien Bang
The Glock Mix 2009)"
